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traveller, standing in rooms {i … ii}

Non-crystal, fog: flight. (First two frag­ments of a later whole.)

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still point

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor flesh­less; Neither from nor to­wards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither ar­rest nor move­ment. And do not call it fixity, Where past and fu­ture are gathered. Neither move­ment from nor to­wards, Neither as­cent nor de­cline. Except for the point, the […]

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Bodies

Two things  —  a thou­sand things  —  meet face to face; two planets, the air on either side of a door, Leda and the Swan, Hemlock and Socrates, two hands, a river and the sea. Their or­bits and col­li­sions are his­tory and life, the brushing and breaking of edges. Bodies, for oboe and piano, is about these meet­ings and […]

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  • Microbiography

    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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